Example sentences for: naively

How can you use “naively” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In the U.S., The Jargon File (Version 2.9.6 of 16 August 1991) asserts (not without a certain telling naively, hacker-dom is predominantly Caucasian with strong minorities of Jews (East Coast) and Orientals (West Coast).

  • It proposed stopping negotiations for a bailout package with the Islamic Development Bank--with which "it is not Islamic fraternal feeling, as some of us would like naively to believe, but pure profit motive which seems to have weighed."

  • When Courtney Love denied Broomfield the rights to Cobain's music and tried to get his movie quashed, she may not have been acting as the poster-girl for the ACLU that the organization perhaps naively tried to turn her into, but she was exercising her constitutionally-guaranteed right to protect her reputation against the worst form of libel there is.

  • A supervisor appeared, quickly signed while avoiding my naively friendly gaze, and handed me to Junior, who then proceeded--methodically, if not neatly--to unpack everything I was carrying, and to toss my clothes, toiletries, etc., into a dirty bin nearby.

  • Chatterbox naively assumed that if Altman didn't make his tabloids more pro-Clinton, he would be frozen out by the Clintons, and that if he didn't make his tabloids more respectable, he would be frozen out by respectable society.


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